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Diary Methods Used in Research on Visually Impaired People

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Advances in Industrial Design (AHFE 2020)

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The diary method is a good way to figure out what practical needs visually impaired people (VIP) have based on their experience. The objective of this study is to investigate how to conduct the diary method in the research of visually impaired people through literature review and interviews. This study summarizes the research purpose of the existing studies, detailed methods such as input method and duration, and issues raised during the study. As a result, we derives considerations for researchers to perform efficient and effective diary methods. The research field for VIP needs a new type of the diary method applied with new technologies such as mobile, IoT, and blockchain.

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This research was supported by the MSIT (Ministry of Science and ICT), Korea, under the ITRC (Information Technology Research Center) support program (IITP-2018-0-01441) supervised by the IITP (Institute for Information & communications Technology Promotion) and by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIP) (No. NRF-2019R1A2C1086366).

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  1. Industrial and Management Engineering, POSTECH, Cheongam-ro. 77, Pohang, 37673, South Korea

    Dawoon Jeong & Sung H. Han

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  1. Dipartimento di Architettura, Universitàdegli Studi G.d’Annunzio”, Pescara, Pescara, Italy

    Giuseppe Di Bucchianico

  2. Department of Industrial Design, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA

    Cliff Sungsoo Shin

  3. University of Notre Dame, Indiana, IN, USA

    Scott Shim

  4. System Design and Management, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

    Shuichi Fukuda

  5. Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal

    Gianni Montagna

  6. Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal

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Jeong, D., Han, S.H. (2020). Diary Methods Used in Research on Visually Impaired People. In: Di Bucchianico, G., Shin, C., Shim, S., Fukuda, S., Montagna, G., Carvalho, C. (eds) Advances in Industrial Design. AHFE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1202. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51194-4_14

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